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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?
(a) It's desire for art.
(b) It's reliance on science.
(c) It's size.
(d) It's thirst for knowledge?

2. What does Rousseau say is hidden in society?
(a) A car of knowledge.
(b) A chariot of intelligence.
(c) A boatload of art.
(d) A train of vices.

3. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?
(a) The loss of his influence.
(b) The loss of his rights.
(c) The loss of freedom of his countrymen.
(d) The loss of his sister.

4. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Rude.
(b) Natural.
(c) Rude, but precious.
(d) Natural, but rude.

5. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) The riches of the bourgeois.
(b) Riches, vice and oppression.
(c) Arts.
(d) The power of the noblemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?

2. Who attacked art and science according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau want his rulers to consider?

4. What does Rousseau say sciences does not improve?

5. What do not have regular form according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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